Higher Education and the Challenge of Sustainability Problematics, Promise, and Practice /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Corcoran, Peter Blaze (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Wals, Arjen E. J. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2004.
• Θέματα: Ethics.; Curriculums (Courses of study).; Education > Curricula.; School management and organization.; School administration.; Higher education.; Environmental management.; Economics.; Management science.; Economics, general.; Higher Education.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.; Environmental Management.; Curriculum Studies.

 Sustainability challenges universities around the world to rethink their missions and to re-structure their courses, research programs, and life on campus. Graduates are increasingly exposed to notions of sustainability, which are emotionally, politically, ethically, and scientifically charged. They must be able to deal with conflicting norms and values, uncertain outcomes and futures, and a changing knowledge base. At the same time they will need to be able to contextualize knowledge in an increasingly globalized society. This book provides a variety of valuable theoretical and practical resources for students, teachers, researchers, and administrators who seek to integrate sustainability in higher education. Sustainability is not only explored as both an outcome and a process of learning, but as a catalyst for educational change and institutional innovation. The book raises the various problematics related to this inchoate field and provides an intellectual history and critical assessment of the prospects for institutionalizing sustainability in higher education. 

 Problematics -- The Problematics of Sustainability in Higher Education: An Introduction -- The Evolution of Sustainability Declarations in Higher Education -- Sustainability as Emergence: The Need for Engaged Discourse -- Critical Realism: A Philosophical Framework for Higher Education for Sustainability -- Higher Education, Sustainability, and the Role of Systemic Learning -- Assessing Sustainability: Criteria, Tools, and Implications -- The Problematics of Sustainability in Higher Education: A Synthesis -- Promise -- The Promise of Sustainability in Higher Education: An Introduction -- Environmental Education for Sustainability: A Force for Change in Higher Education -- The Contribution of Environmental Justice to Sustainability in Higher Education -- Learning Our Way to a Sustainable and Desirable World: Ideas Inspired by Arne Naess and Deep Ecology -- The Contribution of Ecofeminist Perspectives to Stainability in Higher Education -- Sustainability and Transformative Educational Vision -- Teaching Interactive Approaches to Natural Resource Management: A Key Ingredient in the Development of Sustainability in Higher Education -- Living Sustainably Through Higher Education: A Whole Systems Design Approach to Organizational Change -- Disciplinary Explorations of Sustainable Development in Higher Education -- The Promise of Sustainability in Higher Education: A Synthesis -- Practice -- The Practice of Sustainability in Higher Education: An Introduction -- Education and Sustainabile Development in United Kingdom Universities: A Critical Exploration -- Lighting Many Fires: South Carolina’s Sustainable Universities Initiative -- Integrating Education for the Environment and Sustainability Into Higher Education at Middlebury College -- Sustainability in Higher Education Through Distance Learning: The Master of Arts in Environmental Education at Nottingham Trent University -- The Pedagogy of Place: The Environmental Technology Center at Sonoma State University -- Developing Sustainability in Higher Education Using Aishe -- Curriculum Deliberation Amongst Adult Learners in South African Community Contexts at Rhodes University -- Incorporating Sustainability in the Education of Natural Resource Managers: Curriculum Innovation at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University of Denmark -- The Practice of Sustainability in Higher Education: A Synthesis.